Since a powerful being like R'hllor was still bound to this world, Aegor had already given up on fantasies and chosen to live his life well here.
Without imperial ambitions, Aegor, who was second only to Daenerys and above everyone else, had reached the peak achievable through conventional means. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the only goal he could pursue at this point was the highest level of "self-actualization and transcendence."
And as a Game of Thrones player, the ultimate goal he could achieve in self-actualization and transcendence was probably to have his name go down in history.
To achieve this goal, the two most direct and broad paths were none other than "accomplishing great deeds" and "making the world a better place."
He had already completed most of the first through repelling the White Walkers and helping Daenerys unite the Seven Kingdoms. As for making the world a better place... he did not unrealistically think about "ideological liberation" like democracy, freedom, and equality. Instead of being radical, he became a conservative, choosing to implement reforms and changes cautiously.
This change in direction, besides his perspective being influenced by becoming a beneficiary of the status quo, also had significant rational considerations.
Liberation only made sense when productivity had reached a certain level, but the social system severely lagged behind and no longer matched it, leading people to develop advanced ideas that were constrained and suppressed, creating a need for release.
A group of serfs who thought life under the old nobles was not bad, what was there to liberate in their minds?
What this world lacked right now was not a sudden qualitative leap, but the long and arduous accumulation that came before it, whether in productivity or ideological progress.
In terms of productivity, technological innovation and agricultural reform were already in progress.
And in terms of ideology... Aegor chose to create a new religion, using it as a tool and vessel to cultivate and store the "advanced."
The Scripture of Truth was the source of doctrine and cultural spirit he had prepared for the new religion.
Its main points and outline were roughly as follows.
[The universe was born from an explosion created by the Lord of Light, R'hllor, out of chaos. After heaven and earth were created in the Big Bang, R'hllor also set countless constraints and frameworks called "laws" in the newly born world, preventing the universe from collapsing back into chaos.
In the process of operating according to these laws, matter gathered into worlds under the influence of gravity. R'hllor found this too monotonous, so he added light and life to them. Still feeling that something was missing, he then transformed into many different forms to enlighten and guide the most spiritual and intelligent part of living beings, awakening wisdom and reason in them, and instilled souls within them.
The meaning of human souls is to explore truth, recognize and understand this universe, and for this, all humanity needs to unite as one community and strive together.
All deities in the world are multifaceted manifestations of R'hllor, and their purpose is to urge people to never forget their original intention and forge ahead. The more one understands the laws set by R'hllor, or the purer and greater their contribution to humanity's search for truth, the closer their soul is to the Creator God.
The closer one is, the more joyful and happy they are. The farther away, the opposite.
After the death of the physical body, the soul goes to meet R'hllor to make a lifelong account. Those whose merits outweigh their faults in humanity's search for truth are allowed to reincarnate and return to the material world, while those whose faults outweigh their merits will be left in the soul furnace to fuel the operation of the universe with themselves, enduring supreme pain until their sins are atoned for.
The only way for humans to please and worship R'hllor is to use their respective talents to diligently and tirelessly promote the progress and development of civilization.
Therefore, religion should encourage people to abandon prejudice, restrain disputes, and, while maintaining propagation and operation, reduce organization and personnel as much as possible, simplify rituals and activities, and avoid unnecessary waste.
To summarize: One True God, One Humanity, Common Progress.]
The above was the skeleton of the new creation myth. As for the flesh and blood, Aegor would slowly add and supplement it later with his ability to expand sentences and his imagination.
His goal was to absorb the strengths and advantages of various religions from Earth, discard their dross, and design this new religion born from the fusion of the Faith of the Seven and the red god's faith into an all-purpose tool. It could resolve and mitigate the conflict between science and theology, support and encourage the ideological progress of enlightened individuals, cater to and comfort the general public's need for superstition and spiritual support, and even serve as an excuse and basis for external expansion when needed, under the banner of the human community.
Doing this was much more feasible and beneficial than single-mindedly advocating materialism and atheism.
When the Faith of the Seven was on its last legs from the "religious reform" and unable to resist, obediently agreeing to any conditions he proposed, Aegor would call a halt to the "self-purification" and announce the convening of a grand religious council. He would hand the completed version of the Scripture of Truth to the apparent highest leaders of both religions, having both sides simultaneously make it public by "declaring it as divine revelation," and incidentally formally merge the two religions.
The Scripture of Truth would then hold a transcendent position, ranking above all previous scriptures and holy books of not only the red god's faith, but also the Faith of the Seven. As for the old scriptures trampled underfoot, the parts that educated the masses and guided people toward good would be retained, while the useless parts would slowly and gradually be revised out...
The new religion would not require the followers of the original two religions to make any drastic changes in understanding or lifestyle, but would quietly swallow up various old religions in a gentle manner, like a spring breeze passing through the night. It would complete a transformation in the realm of faith in the most stable and undisturbed way, opening a new chapter in history.
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Although her wrist ached from writing so hard, Myrcella was still reluctant to stop even for a moment. She loved this job to death. Every word she wrote on the thick draft in her hand at this moment might become part of a supreme scripture with incomparable and profound influence on the world in the future, printed and copied into millions, no, tens of millions of copies.
This feeling of not just witnessing, but going a step further to participate in or even create history, excited her so much that she could barely keep her legs together.
"Alright, let's stop here for today." Aegor's mouth was a bit dry, so he stopped dictating. "First pour me a glass of water, then switch to another draft. Last night, R'hllor gave me another revelation in my dream, so I need to write it all down quickly."
The Scripture of Truth was basically something custom-made and fabricated according to need, but Aegor's memory actually contained many real, invaluable treasures that could not rot in his head and be taken into the coffin.
Calculus, the three laws, the four fundamental forces, general and special relativity, and even the uncertainty principle... These theories or tools that any university student in another world could talk about at length were a vast and inexhaustible treasure in this world.
Perhaps not all of them applied to this world, and some might even be proven wrong in the distant future of the original world.
They were like a divine book in the eyes of the people in this world right now, but within three to five hundred years, their high consistency with observations in the real world and their accurate predictive ability would absolutely astound anyone who believed in the new religion while also being slightly curious about and eager to explore the laws of the world, and they would be regarded as the ultimate standard.
Attributing all this knowledge to divine revelation in the same way as the gunpowder formula could not only further strengthen the credibility of his identity as an agent and prophet, but also, after being incorporated into the scriptures, serve as the ballast of the new religion, making it solid and credible for a considerable period of time, unshakable.
The management of the new religion would not face the embarrassment that the Christian Church in the original world had encountered, having to constantly reinterpret the Bible as technology advanced.
One day in the future, this world would also develop to the point where people could judge the Scripture of Truth as nonsense based on reason and logic alone.
But by then, its historical mission would certainly have been completed, and Aegor's small goal of having his name go down in history... would likely have been achieved long ago.
(To be continued.)
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